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...State Department, invoking its 1961 ban on travel to Cuba, turned down U.S. Chess Champion Bobby Fischer, 22, who wanted to compete in Havana's international Capablanca Memorial Tournament. Checked tem porarily, the moodily brilliant high school dropout studied the board, then maneuvered thus: he cabled Cuba's Na tional Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation, asked if he might play the tournament by telephone or cable from New York. Havana has agreed, says Bobby's attorney, and if arrangements can be made through the World Chess Federation, Brooklyn's grand master will be moving...
...CHILD'S INTRODUCTION TO READING, WRITING AND ARITHMETIC (Golden) bounces through the three Rs with catchy tem pos, infectious lyrics, and clever character profiles. The number zero, for example, is a rather dispirited down and outer: "Dear little zero/Queer little zero/ He's nearly fat as he's tall." Nobody's hero, apparently, but once the other numbers discover the multiple advantages of standing next to zero, he becomes an incredibly popular and happy little cipher...
...Black Day." Thus at midweek, Republican Senator John Hughes arose with a resolution. For days past he had been nominating Fellow Republican Earl Brydges for majority leader. But not this time. Now Senator Hughes asked "that Joseph Zaretzki be named president pro tem...
...skyscraper are several significant patterns that emerge from 1964's auto sales. Compact cars continued their decline, dropping to only 20.1% of the market from 29% in 1963. Their place was largely taken by the intermediates, which captured about 18% of the market. The Pontiac Tem pest, the Oldsmobile F85 and the Buick Special, all of which were upgraded from compact to intermediate in the fall of 1963, made sales gains of 72%, 41% and 26% respectively. Reinforcing this customer trading-up was a further proliferation of optional equipment, ranging from chrome-plated air cleaners to rear-seat speakers...
...Negro President in U.S. history, has just entered the White House. He has arrived there by a singular coincidence of disaster: the Vice President has died of a heart attack, the President and Speaker of the House have both been crushed by a collapsing ceiling. Dilman, as president pro tem of the U.S. Senate, is next in line. In Wallace's contrived exercise, Dilman is made to contend with 1) a son who belongs to a Black Muslim-type society...